Pistorius Loved 'Women, Guns and Cars'

The charismatic 26-year-old sprinter's private life has courted controversy, and in 2009 he spent a night in jail after allegedly assaulting a 19-year-old woman at a party. (Text: ANI, Photo: AP)

Pistorius' ex-girlfriend Samantha Taylor had claimed last November that the South African sprint star is certainly not what people think he actually is. After breaking up with Taylor, Pistorius then started going out with model Reeva Steenkamp, who was found shot four times in Pistorius' Pretoria home on Thursday. (Text: ANI, Photo: AP)

Pistorius has also been open about his love for guns, as the sprinter told a British daily last year that he slept with a pistol, machine gun, cricket bat and baseball bat at his up market home in a secure Pretoria estate for fear of burglars. (Text: ANI, Photo: AFP)

Off the track, Pistorius has a passion for motorbikes, adrenalin and speed. Pistorius' trainer Jannie Brooks had revealed last year that the sprinter likes fast cars and every time he comes here to train, he had another car, adding he is just built for speed because the cars have an amazing performance. (Text: ANI, Photo: AFP)

Four years ago he crashed his boat in a river south of Johannesburg, breaking two ribs, an eye socket and his jaw. Empty alcohol bottles were found in the boat, but his blood alcohol content wasn't tested. (Text: ANI, Photo: Reuters)

Pistorius had been brash with reporters in the past, famously storming off the set when a BBC interviewer asked if his battles to compete in able-bodied sports weren't an inconvenient embarrassment to athletics authorities. (Text: ANI, Photo: AP)